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Top NATO military officials are in Norfolk this week discussing takeaways from the alliance's summit held last month. The annual meeting at the Allied Command Transformation, NATO's only command in North America, will cover the new rapid action force, which was endorsed by the North Atlantic Council in response to Russia's military action in Ukraine and can deploy swiftly to emerging threats. Topics over the two days also include updates to the command's main mission of training and evaluating troops for future threats. Gen. Jean-Paul Palomeros, a French Air Force general who leads Allied Command Transformation, said the Norfolk-based command is a "pillar of NATO...

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